SNAP! Duke has far more African-American students, as a proportion of the student body. Tuition/costs are roughly the same. And Duke recruits students who have some chance of graduating. Michigan recruits some guys like Jalen Rose, who left early and had a fine NBA career. But they also recruit a lot of guys who take fake classes and are simply exploited as basketball cannon fodder. So, yes, it may be true that Duke recruits a different sort of player, the sort who has a chance of graduating with a degree. But I think it's more likely that Duke players are told they MUST focus on graduating, and that they have to work. Michigan players can just hope to have a career shooting off their mouths...like Jalen Rose.

Hate to bring a little social science into this, but I assume you're aware that U of M had to change its admissions policy in the middle of last decade? My suspicion is that the numbers when Rose was looking around at colleges (and thus formed his assumptions) would be very different.

Even so, Michigan had notorious race issues throughout the 1980s. Wouldn't be hard to find if you google it, as it was all over the national news for a spell. Hard to believe Rose was thinking much beyond the ballers when he made his choice.